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Jenny Kyng's avatar

On reading this, it reminded me so strongly of all the families tyrannised by an anorexic child I met and have read about in the course of a career looking after anorexics, as a psychiatric nurse.

In so many of these families the sick child had taken on so much power, and all other family members were constantly walking on eggshells. Luckily in that field, doctors and therapists seek to empower parents and enable them to gradually restore sanity in the household, but unfortunately when it comes to anything related to the gender madness, parents get no support.

I wonder if it could be useful for you to attend or study the principles of self-help organisations like Al Anon or Nar Anon, sister organisations to Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, which are designed to help parents and partners of drug or alcohol affected loved ones to develop some healthy boundaries? You don’t have to accept all the quasi-religious language about higher powers etc but the principles of letting go of a sense of responsibility over things that can’t be controlled can be very helpful.

Also the book Lost in TransNation by Dr Miriam Grossman could be invaluable.

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